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By SARAH L. VOISIN

January 4, 2008 | 12:00 a.m. CST

Phyllis Roop, a Sunday school teacher at Word of Life Assembly of God Church in Springfield, Va., blesses Jabeen Ghulam, of Annandale, Va., standing with her son Elisha Musih.

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